You are dealing with a lot more customers out there these days. I used to only see joins from US, some European countries, and Japan. Now I get joins from middle east, asia, russia, brazil, south korea, India... Basically electronic payments are penetrating into new markets at an accelerated pace. Also average prices for websites are gradually getting lowered while offering more content. We always experiment with different monthly prices as low as $9.95 per month on different sites to see what will do well. Basically you gotta price your product at a level that people are willing to pay. Much like how streaming music services help discourage music piracy because you can get a lot of content for like $5 or $10 a month. Hosting costs are also down a TON in the past few years. I used to pay $1000 per month for maybe 2tb of space. Now I pay the same for 20TB and bandwidth costs are 1/3 of what they were in 2005. So it costs us much less to offer out that free content to draw people in. In the end you have to play the numbers game. You have 10000 people with credit cards viewing your free content. Maybe 1 or 2 of them will be willing to pay the $10-$20 per month to access the full site with HD downloads and the latest updates. Amplify that to a million people a day and you can start getting somewhere. It's definitely not easy to be profitable since you have to pay to get the scenes for updates which is why the number of active adult paysites is less now, but if you can keep your costs down and keep your quality up you'll survive. I sure to miss the early 2000s though when you could put up anything and make money!

Oh well we all started off somewhere. I was a total stranger when I first got into it. Granted for me being around all those other video production companies helped me meet people in person to give me a shot in the business. My first project was an online DVD store so that was a good way to get to know the owners of the DVD companies. Obviously if you show up at their door ready to buy a bunch of product they're going to want to talk to you. From there I gradually added more and more projects to my portfolio but I've been in this business for 10 years and probably the first 5 or 6 was spent just trying to figure out where I can fit in and how everything works with this constantly changing market.

Most of the money now is in internet so if anything you can more easily get somewhere even if you start off not knowing people. If someone new to the business was looking for advice on how to get started I would say best thing to do is start with traffic sites like blogs, or model fan sites, or promotional galleries and try to get good US/EU traffic to these sites. You can use these sites to promote paysites, dating sites, chat programs and get connected that way. Build up a good reputation you can do traffic and link trades with other such traffic sites. Maybe one day if there's a particular type of content you really like writing and promoting you can start either shooting your own content in that niche or buy up other people's content you think is good and make your own paysite.

I grew up in the san fernando valley (where a lot of the old school video companies were based) so it was all around me. You want to get started as an adult webmaster I would poke around one of the adult webmaster hangouts like gfy.com or ynot.com - see what types of business goes on and where you would want to get involved (traffic sites, paysites, content production, etc). Good luck!

There's no substitute for toys on free porn sites so there will always be a market for those. Although physical media has taken a hit with the rise of the world's pornhubs, xhamsters, etc. a lot of these tube sites are now owned by established corporations and comply with DMCA laws so the content on there is mostly licensed legally. So if you're a producer and smart about where you license your content you can still have a good audience base out there that will pay for your movies!

Romney was saying something quite different than what he was saying during his whole campaign. I think that confused the president just as it confused me. I wouldn't know how to argue against his points because you'd need time to stop and ask, "wait... are all these things he's saying possible?" Of course, the next day you see all the news articles and factual analysis that say no, they're not possible he was just spitting gas.

more elaboration on the night in question: armed with merely a rubber band and a plastic bag my goal was to sneak up on them and rubber band the bag around their heads (don't judge). We were at a golf course and I tried to sneak into the pond in the middle in the pitch black dark. Apparently I had told my friends to "maintain radio silence" while I went in for the kill. After that, they heard a bunch of splish splashing around and then I showed back up with bag and rubber band still in hand, buncha cuts on my leg and said "fuck it let's just keep ice blocking"